National Support Services, General

Provides website-based resources for parents and caregivers who play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events.

Internet-based resource

A national movement working to transform the way we care in this country, aiming to organize and develop policy on the local, state, and federal levels to expand care options for seniors, people with disabilities, and their caregivers while improving the quality of home care jobs.

Serves as a national resource to support the implementation of Help Me Grow systems throughout the country. Provides technical support to states and communities to operationalize efforts to plan, build, and enhance a comprehensive and integrated State Help Me Grow system, ensuring the development of robust, effective early childhood systems that promote the healthy development of every child.

Help Me Grow National Center is a program of Connecticut Children's Office for Community Child Health.

Provides online and phone services for women experiencing postpartum depression and their families.

• Parenting Helplines
• Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
• General Mental Health Information/Education

MaleSurvivor fosters a healing community where tens of thousands of men from more than 200 countries come together to find support, information and — most importantly — hope. Services include online forum, support groups, find a therapist, and resources for family members and loved ones of victims.

Support Groups: Find support groups, events, and reading recommendations.

Find a Therapist: Search clinics and clinicians by name or location.

For parents: Resources for parents of sexual abuse survivors.

Provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.

Crisis Chat Service provides online emotional support at: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/

Organization dedicated to mitigating and preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through a community of parents, organizations, and volunteers. Adverse Childhood Experiences could include major health and mental health concerns, fostering well-being and family functioning, strengthening families, achieving leadership, improving programs, etc.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Offering ongoing online support groups for people of all ages.

• Bereavement Support Groups
• Parenting Helplines

The mission of Recovery International is to use the cognitive-behavioral, peer-to-peer, self-help training system developed by Abraham Low, MD, to help individuals gain skills to lead more peaceful and productive lives.

See the website for local and online meetings and resources.

Promotes the safety, permanency and well being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and referral professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.

Provides access to print and electronic publications, web sites and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption search and reunion and much more.

To report child abuse or neglect, please contact Child Help USA at 1.800.4 A Child (1.800.422.4453) or see our list of State child abuse and neglect reporting numbers.

• Parenting Helplines

Provides and online resources for coping with body-focused repetitive behaviors (like hair pulling and skin picking). Website is designed for those with these behaviors, family members, medical and mental health professionals, and others interested in learning about this often-misunderstood disorder.

Services Include:

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Therapist Directory
• Support Group

PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. Provides local chapter finder and other information resources.

Provides GSA clubs or student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. 

Interested Parties can utilize the map the website provides to find the GSA Chapter in your State.

Provides educational programs, training and technical assistance resources, and consultation to health care organizations including health centers with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.